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In November 2015, the UN Human Rights Council will be assessing Australia’s compliance with its obligations under the human rights treaties it has signed. Together with Privacy International, the Australian Privacy Foundation, and the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties, we’ve submitted an expert report to the HRC in order to ensure that the global community takes a hard look at the laws and practices of one of the NSA’s closest partners.

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At the Internet Opportunity event, CDT is unveiling a new white paper, Speech 2.0: Free Expression in the New Digital Europe. The paper aims to highlight the many ways that Europeans are using the Internet to further the enjoyment of their fundamental free expression rights.

The New York Department of Financial Services issued a revised draft BitLicense proposal in February. The Department made a clear effort to improve the BitLicense from its original 2014 proposal to regulate digital currency, such as Bitcoin. However, the new draft still contains problems, and could undermine the privacy of digital currency users, covering an unnecessarily broad range of services.

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Reforming ECPA

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was created in 1986, before emails, cloud computing, and social networking were mainstream. CDT is fighting for much needed reform of ECPA to require a warrant for any searches of your private online communications.